1.   As for strategy, she hammers an antitax message but also has firmly hitched her fortune to Lazio, a popular figure in the district.

2.   Bob Dole was in the right place at the right time and trying to hitch his fortunes to the right championship baseball team Wednesday.

3.   Foes of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi have hitched their fortunes to a cherubic, bicycling economist closely tied to the once-mighty Christian Democrats.

4.   ROME -- Foes of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi have hitched their fortunes to a cherubic, bicycling economist closely tied to the once-mighty Christian Democrats.